I? the last two years, the research group Olibal has been collaborating with different Museums and institutions in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands (Spain) in order to introduce new technologies in Cultural Heritage Management. Most Spanish Cultural institutions have not introduced yet those technologies in their everyday life due to the lack of public funding as well as their scant experienc...

historic urban areas are a significant part of each city not only due to having irreplaceable cultural and social resources, but also due to their attractive patterns of life. they have being threatened by strong development trends. this paper aims to investigate the impacts of redevelopment trends in the historic city of shiraz, iran. the paper begins by highlighting historical development in ...

Historic urban areas are a significant part of each city not only due to having irreplaceable cultural and social resources, but also due to their attractive patterns of life. They have being threatened by strong development trends. This paper aims to investigate the impacts of redevelopment trends in the historic city of Shiraz, Iran. The paper begins by highlighting historical development in ...

as an important event, each war has a lasting effect on people's life and language for decades. some war consequences are in direct relation with end result (winning or losing) of the war and some others are the aftermath of the war itself. this essay discusses two points about the period following the war, considering iran-iraq war. first, death becomes a routine. it will be internalized ...

The policy embraces a sweeping policy mandate, beginning with the goal to “protect, maintain and restore the health and biological diversity of ocean, coastal and Great Lakes ecosystems and resources,” and expanding to sustainable uses of ocean resources, best available science, public access to waters, maritime heritage, duties under international law, scientific understanding, adaptation to c...

The challenge of the next decade is to effectively expend our limited resources to continually deliver better information resources through e-publishing mechanisms. This keynote will focus upon the benefits of collaboration and the means by which collaboration is particularly benefiting digital preservation strategies for the e-publishing community. We need to build sustainably, providing publi...

Research treats divergences between monolingual and heritage grammars in terms of performance-'L1 attrition,' e.g., lexical retrieval-or competence-'incomplete acquisition', e.g., lack of overt tense markers (e.g., Polinsky, 1995; Sorace, 2004; Montrul, 2008; Schmid, 2010). One classic difference between monolingual and Heritage German is reduction in morphological case in the latter, especiall...

With the mobility and off-farm employment of rural villagers, agricultural production has been influenced by the absence of labor force in the past few years. In particular, the inadequate assignment of resources has threatened the sustainability of some Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems due to their low profit. In this paper, the influences of labor force and capital on agricult...

Cultural Heritage is a group of resources identified as a reflection of certain values, beliefs, knowledge and tradition by a certain community. These resources are subject to management, preservation and diffusion through legislative and administrative means, which makes cultural heritage fall within the scope of Protected sites, one of the spatial data themes established in Annex I of the INS...